Month: October 2013

This week’s New York Times magazine featured an interview with that Moses of U.S. specialty importers, Berkeley-based Kermit Lynch — and it’s well worth your time.  Lynch was an early advocate … Kermit Lynch, the 100 year-old <em>negoce,</em> and how old wines resemble old peopleRead more

In Europe’s more northerly vineyards the harvest is underway as we write.  2013 has turned out to be a problematic year in many places, with yields down for a second or … The grapes that fall along the wayRead more

There’s something out there called the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory. It’s run by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and one of the things that keeps its inmates occupied is the examination of some … Why wine, anyway?Read more

OLIVIER COUSIN FARMS 12 hectares (around 30 acres) and makes about 3000 cases of wine annually from gamay, chardonnay, cabernet franc, grolleau, and chenin blanc in the Layon Valley in the central … Whose grandfather wins?</br>Read more

CENTRAL BOTTLE HAS a real commitment to winemakers who do things the old-fashioned way, who work with traditional materials and methods, who make honest, authentic wine, who shrink from excessive manipulations … Manipulation is not a four-letter wordRead more